![]() Yet his perspective and emphasis, his critics say, are too often misplaced. He’s right that those concerns are part of public health, too. “If the goal - as it should be - is to protect people’s health and well-being, we need to look at it holistically,” he said. A mental health crisis is sweeping the nation, particularly among kids.An educational gap that persisted before the pandemic is worsening, with Black and Latino kids bearing the brunt.Leonhardt, in a phone conversation with Nightly, said he tries to talk to experts across many disciplines and spotlight the pandemic responses that have “big costs.” Among them: 5, Leonhardt predicted the increase in deaths “is unlikely to be anywhere near as large” as the Delta wave was. That’s the high end of the deaths during the Delta surge.Īs recently as three weeks ago, on Jan. a day - 2,466 Wednesday, according to his own paper. The pandemic, more than two years old, is now killing more than 2,000 people in the U.S. The “bad news” about Covid, these experts say, isn’t a bias. “It’s head-exploding,” one exhausted emergency physician told Nightly. One letter to the Times from a group of prominent pandemic experts, obtained by Nightly (though with the full list of signatures withheld), called his reporting “irresponsible and dangerous.” Infectious diseases are inherently about social interaction.” “To argue that we should just get on with life because boosted individuals (like himself) face relatively low personal risk of death from the virus misses so much,” Cecilia Tomori, director of global health and community health at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing tweeted about Leonhardt’s journalism this week. He tends, they say, to look at the virus’ impact on individuals, not the pandemic’s impact on society. itself reversed course) that he underestimates how many Americans - not all over age 65 - are at elevated risk or live with people at elevated risk. They say that he cherry-picks sources and data, giving too much weight to people who may have medical expertise but not on infectious disease that he argues strenuously for open schools but downplays the Covid risks for kids as well as their role in spreading the virus that he held out Britain’s vaccination strategy as a model (right before the U.K. Notable doctors and scientists have written to the Times, individually or in groups, to poke holes in Leonhardt’s coverage of the pandemic. Over the last few months, a long-simmering critical conversation among public health experts about Leonhardt’s take and his outsize influence has become more audible. ![]() ![]() He has positioned himself as the pundit who punches holes in public health orthodoxy, who shuns the “bad news bias” of journalism, who offers soothing rationality - grounded in his years of Pulitzer-winning reporting on economics - in the face of what he calls “Covid alarmism.” THE NIGHTLY READS ‘THE MORNING’ - With 5 million readers, David Leonhardt, the author of The New York Times “The Morning” newsletter, is arguably the most influential of the Covid influencers. ![]()
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